Example sentences of "[noun sg] had see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
| 2 | Like the commander , whom Peter met at Plumford Vicarage just before they left for Abbotsfield , the car had seen better days . |
| 3 | The Trident programme had seen the start of the pressure , because the submarine-launched system was the priority programme at the Establishment . |
| 4 | The enemy had seen him : streams of light burst against the rocks , chunks of which flew off and rained down on Defries . |
| 5 | This led in turn to the most highly successful venture in buying and selling of business aircraft the aviation industry had seen . |
| 6 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 7 | A witness had seen the retired steel worker in the middle of the road . |
| 8 | It was the first time that many of the sales force had seen the new range , which had taken one year to develop and would be launched into the market place within the next few weeks . |
| 9 | Once Dot had seen a canary in a bent cage pulled out , black like a little sparrow from the ashes and soot , yet still singing even though its owner was gone . |
| 10 | Dot had seen people like that before , long ago . |
| 11 | The President had seen the polls forecasting heavy defeat and had decided on a high-profile last-ditch effort to free the Iranian hostages . |
| 12 | About a week later he explained at more length that the committee had seen all the drawings and liked them with this one exception . |
| 13 | Referee Rudy Battle had seen enough soon after and called it off as Dixon took a pounding . |
| 14 | But his editor had to see him . |
| 15 | The tigress had seen me , or she would not have crossed the pool and hurried for shelter , as her tracks showed she had done . |
| 16 | His eyes were small , but as shrewd as any Topaz had seen and she knew she would n't be able to gull him . |
| 17 | Also there was a cluster of messages on small adhesive labels , like the ones Boy had seen stuck in phone boxes near the railway station , and he bent down to look and read all of these . |
| 18 | The pictures however did n't seem to be of artistes of any kind ; they were just of anonymous , handsome young men , the sort of photographs that Boy had seen in barber 's windows showing the kinds of haircut you could get . |
| 19 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 20 | The box was always somewhere on the floor by his bed , and was tied up with a bow , as if it was a precious parcel or a gift intended for a special person ; the bow was tied from a length of scarlet nylon ribbon which Boy had seen in the dustbin outside a florist 's , and had stolen , and taken home and ironed , having sensed at once that its splendid colour made it suitable for the tying up of this very special box . |
| 21 | The boy had seen because he was always looking to see what people were doing . |
| 22 | Furthermore , Mr Farraday had made it clear that he planned to hold only very rarely the sort of large social occasions Darlington Hall had seen frequently in the past . |
| 23 | The company admitted it had been ‘ a tough year ’ but said the second half had seen a ‘ substantial recovery ’ in performance of the main communications businesses as costs were controlled . |
| 24 | The company admitted it had been ‘ a tough year ’ but said the second half had seen a ‘ substantial recovery ’ in performance of the main communications businesses as costs were controlled . |
| 25 | His story was that he had collapsed with exhaustion and thirst when a passing American schooner had seen his distress signals and taken him aboard . |
| 26 | A girl had seen Holly . |
| 27 | The servant girl had seen the crime and recognized Mr Hyde . |
| 28 | The BYU team had seen neutrons , a sign of fusion , and had discussed the experiment with the two chemists . |
| 29 | Her teacher had seen a small notice about a charity in Russia which was looking for hosts for children from the affected regions and had contacted a friend , originally from Russia , who helped investigate the charity . |
| 30 | A further comment from an Afro-Caribbean boy indicates the way the label of ‘ troublemaker ’ interferes with academic success , just as earlier at school A a teacher had seen ‘ trouble ’ as the avenue pupils were pushed towards when they were viewed as ‘ intellectually inferior ’ : |